AMD Caicos
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
AMD Caicos
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Caicos and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
235
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Value for money (0-100)
25.47
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Kepler
Caicos
Code name
GK104
Desktop
Type
Desktop
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Release date
3 May 2012 (9 years ago)
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Launch price (MSRP)
$999
$10.38
Price now
$534 (0.5x MSRP)
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Value for money
5.32
Caicos
GPU code name
GK104
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Caicos and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

160
Pipelines
1536
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Core clock speed
915 MHz
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Boost Clock
1019 MHz
370 million
Transistor count
3,540 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
300 Watt
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Texture fill rate
234 billion/sec
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Floating-point performance
2x 3,130 gflops
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CUDA cores
3072
160
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
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Boost clock speed
1019 MHz
370 million
Number of transistors
3,540 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
300 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Caicos and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690.

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Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Length
11.0" (27.9 cm)
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Supplementary power connectors
Two 8-pin
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SLI options
+
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Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
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Height
4.376" (11.1 cm)

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Caicos and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5
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Memory bus width
512-bit (256-bit per GPU)
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Memory clock speed
6008 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
384 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Caicos and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini-Displayport 1.2
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G-SYNC support
+
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Multi monitor support
4 displays
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HDCP
+
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Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
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Audio input for HDMI
Internal
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HDMI
Yes (via dongle)

Technologies

The difference between AMD Caicos and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 is the additional functionality.

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3D Vision
+
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GPU Boost
+
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CUDA
+
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3D Gaming
+
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3D Vision Live
+
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FXAA
+
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TXAA
+
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Adaptive VSync
+
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3D Blu-Ray
+
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DirectX 11
DirectX 11

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Caicos and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.4
OpenGL
4.2
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Vulkan
1.1.126
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Shader Model
5.1
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OpenCL
1.2

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Caicos and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Caicos or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Caicos
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Caicos
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Caicos
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Caicos
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Caicos
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Caicos

Cheaper ($10.38 vs $534 (0.5x MSRP))

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690

28.23% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (1536 vs 160)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

G-SYNC support

So, AMD Caicos or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 .

AMD Caicos versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Caicos
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